Vegan chocolate tray bake topped with ganache

Last Updated on9 November 2013 at 2:57 pm

I went along to my first meetup of the Edinburgh Cinema group and Elise the facilitator had generously baked a chocolate cake for everyone. This was my first knowing encounter with ganache as an icing alternative and I was pointed towards Beatty’s Chocolate Cake for the recipe of the deliciously moist cake.

Inspired by this, I fancied adapting this into a vegan tray-bake and my first attempt turned out no’ too bad.

Chocolate Cake Ingredients

1.75 cups self-raising white plain flour

½ cup of cocoa powder

1 cup of sugar

1 tsp of salt

2 tsp rice flour

1 cup of soya milk

½ cups of sunflower oil

1 tsp of vanilla extract

1 cup of freshly made hot chocolate

2 tbsp of maple syrup

Cake Method

Preheat oven to 350F/180C

Line a shallow roasting tray with grease-proof paper, 40cm x 27cm (2cm deep) worked well for me